Fever Pitch is a 1985 movie starring
Ryan O'Neal and
directed by Richard Brooks. It was nominated for
four Razzie
Awards, including Worst Picture, as well as contributing to
O'Neal's later Razzie nomination for Worst Actor of the Decade.
(Fittingly, O'Neal was beaten by Sylvester Stallone: all four of the
awards for which Fever Pitch was nominated were won by
Stallone vehicles.) The original music score was composed by Thomas Dolby.

Plot

Steve Taggart is a Los Angeles sports writer who becomes
obsessed with gambling. As Taggart gets deeper and deeper into
debt, he compounds his problems with associated loan sharks,
including the dangerous Dutchman.

Further complications are due to the fact that Taggart's
newspaper editor has assigned him to write a series of stories
about a compulsive gambler, advancing him considerable money to do
so, unaware that Taggart's subject is himself. The writer's habit
has already cost him his marriage, and his relationship with his
daughter is in jeopardy. He goes to Gamblers Anonymous to try to get
straight, then takes up with Las Vegas big-timer Charley
to try to get even.